When using difftool with vimdiff it can be unexpected that the current directory changes to the root of the project. Tell vim to chdir to the value of $GIT_PREFIX to fix this. Care is taken to quote the variable so that vim expands it. This avoids problems when directory names contain spaces. Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: FrÃdÃric Heitzmann <frederic.heitzmann@xxxxxxxxx> --- How embarassing. I'm going to bed now. This one works. git-mergetool--lib.sh | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh index 4db9212..91f90ac 100644 --- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh +++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh @@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ get_merge_tool_cmd () { } run_merge_tool () { + # If GIT_PREFIX is empty then we cannot use it in tools + # that expect to be able to chdir() to its value. + GIT_PREFIX=${GIT_PREFIX:-.} + export GIT_PREFIX + merge_tool_path="$(get_merge_tool_path "$1")" || exit base_present="$2" status=0 @@ -188,6 +193,7 @@ run_merge_tool () { check_unchanged else "$merge_tool_path" -R -f -d -c "wincmd l" \ + -c 'cd $GIT_PREFIX' \ "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" fi ;; @@ -199,6 +205,7 @@ run_merge_tool () { check_unchanged else "$merge_tool_path" -R -f -d -c "wincmd l" \ + -c 'cd $GIT_PREFIX' \ "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" fi ;; -- 1.7.5.2.663.gfcb11.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html